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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy - Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World
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Edward Elgar
Sivumäärä: 392 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2011, 30.11.2011 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach, combining complexity science and institutionalism. It also provides tools for policy makers in turbulent times.

Part 1 is concerned with the conceptualization of socio-economic change. It integrates complexity science and institutionalism into a coherent ontology of social and policy dynamics.

Part 2 is concerned with models and measurement. It combines some of the principal approaches developed in complexity analysis with models and methods drawn from mainstream social and political science.

Part 3 offers empirical applications to public policy: the dynamics of social exclusion; the social dimension of knowledge economies; the current financial and economic crisis. These are supplemented by a toolkit for the practice of 'agile policy making'.

This is a stimulating, provocative and highly original book. It will appeal to academics and students in social and policy studies and to a wide range of scholars in other disciplines where complexity science is already well-developed. It will also be of major interest for decision makers coping with complex and turbulent policy terrains.

Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Concepts
2. The Complexity Paradigm
3. Complex Adaptive Systems
4. The Economy as a Complex Adaptive System
5. Institutional Settings and Architectures
6. Institutional Dynamics
7. The Struggle for Positional Advantage
8. Conceptualising Social Dynamics
Part II: Methods
9. Attractors and Orbits in Dynamic Systems
10. Patterns in Time and Space
11. Connections and Networks
12. Mobility on Social Landscapes
13. Towards a Generic Methodology
Part III: Policies
14. Agile Policy-Making
15. Poverty and Social Exclusion
16. Social Dynamics of the Knowledge Economy
17. Global Turbulence and Crisis Postscript: Tools for Policy-Makers
References
Index

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